Re: Victorian Bush Fires

Where is New South Wales Mel , do you live !!!! Bats lives at South West RocksAs for those Bush Fires just Awful and to the Animals ,,one Couple stated their Shetland Pony was runningwith it's coat afire !! and they couldn't do a thing it broke my heart to think about it .In NS Wales we have those awful Floods above us and below us the Fires,,Thank-God they caught the Fire -Bug before the Public did ,!! and those Looters are just as badHow many People saw that Koala drinking water !!! a friend sent me a photo where this Koala chased these Bike-Riders for water, lovely shot of him drinking,,,for those Overseas people the Koalas reallydon't normaly do this as they get the water from Gum Leaves,,very timid animalAnd in NS Wales we are getting these very strong Winds,,and gusts, with heavy rain [ bats]

Re: Victorian Bush Fires

I'm glad you're all ok over there. I'm sorry for those who aren't though. And I hope everything gets better really fast. I live in a high fire area, so I know how awful it is to have all these fires all over.

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Re: Victorian Bush Fires

Hey Bats, I'm in the Hunter Valley, we're on flood watch at the moment. It's unbelievable if the rain would head south it'd help with the fires. I went to Adelaide Hills for a couple of days and couldn't believe how dry it was. We had to change flights at Melbourne and the smoke was so think even at the airport.

The poor wildlife has suffered too look at this koala:

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Re: Victorian Bush Fires

Things are looking grim in your part of the world, but I know how it goes. In the US southwest, things overall are just really, really dry (the majority of the area is desert). Every summer there are really bad wildfires. Only the loss of life usually isn't too severe....usually.

Sometimes I feel the problem to so many bad fires because we prevent them too well. Fire is natures way of clearing out and helping the land. Plants accumulate and can't go so well because it gets croweded, and are drier overall due to more competition for water. And some plants can't even take root as a seed if there isn't a fire to get them started. So instead of lots of small fires that don't do a lot of harm, it just ends up with several massive fires that do a lot of harm.

Re: Victorian Bush Fires

Hmm, I might live there someday. My church denomination doesn't have any missionaries in Australia, so maybe that's what I'll do. Then we won't need the 'God or Evolution' thread, and we can fight or agree face to face. JK